The project has saved the city more than $16,000 per year in energy cost and paid for itself in less than two years, at a cost of $50 per light
West Peoria News: Lighting District fully converted to LED
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Labor roundup: Will Teamsters go on strike at UPS? Alaska unions OK with Willow Project
by Community Word Staff • • 3 Comments
Negotiations between the Teamsters and United Parcel Service started April 17, and the Teamsters are warning members to prepare for a strike. The union’s new president, Sean O’Brien, has vowed that the union would go to the mat for key…
Nature Rambles: Red-headed Woodpeckers are dangerously temperate-amental
by Mike Miller • • 0 Comments
Central Illinois has long been a refuge for healthy populations of Red-headed Woodpeckers. Our plentiful oak woodlands and rich river valleys have long been home to this colorful species. With its bright red hood and black and white body, it…
The Lion’s Den: Cost of being poor can be very expensive
by Daniel McCloud • • 0 Comments
According to U.S. Census data, the official poverty rate in 2020 was 11.4 percent, resulting in 37.2 million people living in poverty. In addition, Census data indicates that between 2019 and 2020, the poverty rates increased for non-Hispanic Whites and…
Heat Waves in Red & Black: Inflation Reduction Act — save money at home by decarbonizing
by William Rau • • 0 Comments
If you want to help arrest global warming but are not sure about your best actions, then the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, offers a lengthy list of things to do. Over the next 10 years (2023-32), this breakthrough climate…
Editorial: Great reads, Sandra — Serendipity, indeed
by Brian Ludwig • • 4 Comments
It’s the little things that make the moments of our lives extra special. And it takes a big heart to fill them with love. Serendipity. That’s what Sandra Dempsey Post provided for readers for more than 40 years all over…
The Watch: Peoria County powering up facilities with solar energy
by Terry Bibo • • 0 Comments
Two solar projects up, one down, as we cut the carbon footprint. Peoria County Board Peoria County Board met March 9 with all members present. Regular business focused on approval of solar project developments and power purchase agreements between Peoria…
West Peoria News: Rohmann and Sterling corner revitalization on way
by April Silver • • 0 Comments
The environment in which resilient economic ecosystems emerge is not always rooted in large-scale development of entire cities but in the smaller, action steps taken by the local community to make the city safer, more livable, and financially resilient while…
Straight Talk: Why no naming rights for Civic Center?
by Roger Monroe • • 0 Comments
The heated confrontation between Peoria Rivermen fans and the Civic Center Authority Board is over — for now. A short-term, one-year lease agreement with a second year option was reached and all God’s children said “Amen.” Not everyone praised Ric…
Heat Waves in Red & Black: Putin’s petrostate under kleptocratic ‘reiderstovo’
by William Rau • • 0 Comments
Russian oligarchs are named incorrectly. America has oligarchs, men whose extraordinary wealth can sway governments. As Gilens and Page (2014) show, economic elites and big corporations get their way when Congress crafts legislation whereas ordinary citizens have negligible impact. Wealth…